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February 16, 2012

Lesson of the Day - Ruby Serialization

Ruby has two object serialization mechanisms built right into the language. One is used to serialize into a human readable format, the other into a binary format. I will look into the binary one shortly, but for now let’s focus on human readable. Any object you create in Ruby can be serialized into YAML format, with pretty much no effort needed on your part.